 | Friday, December 08, 2023 | |  | | | | Here are the CBC Books picks for the top Canadian fiction of the year! | | |  | | | | From quiet snails, to lost socks, to time travel, we've found a book for every young reader on your holiday list! | | |  | | | | The Vietnamese Canadian writer spoke with The Next Chapter's Ali Hassan about the inspiration behind her debut novel Sunshine Nails. | | |  | | | | Trivia expert and host of the Backbench podcast Mattea Roach shares three memoir recommendations with The Next Chapter’s Ali Hassan: Joan Didion's Where I Was From, Emma Healey's Best Young Women Job Book and Michelle Zauner's Crying in H Mart. | | |  | | | | It can be difficult to talk to kids about what's happening in the world, especially when it involves civil unrest, illness and death. But Tomson Highway wants to make it a little easier. The renowned Cree author, musician and playwright joins Piya Chattopadhyay on The Sunday Magazine to discuss his new musical children's book, Grand Chief Salamoo Cook is Coming to Town! | | |  | | | | Reading Sigrid Nunez is like having an intimate conversation, full of warmth, intelligence and wit. You never know where it will take you, but it's always rewarding. Her eighth title, The Friend, won the 2018 U.S. National Book Award. In it, a woman grieving for her close friend and mentor finds unexpected fulfillment caring for his 180-pound Great Dane. Nunez's 2020 novel, What Are You Going Through, considers similar themes of grief and friendship. Writers & Company revisits Eleanor Wachtel’s 2021 interview with Nunez this week. | | |  | | | | Jann Arden is a lot of things: an eight-time Juno-winning singer-songwriter, an actor, a television producer and the author of four memoirs. Now, she can add novelist to that list. Arden's debut novel, The Bittlemores, was released at the beginning of November. In an interview with Q's Tom Power, she calls it a "fairy tale of sorts." | | |  | | | | A new Audible audiobook dramatization of the Lucy Maud Montgomery classic Anne of Green Gables was released this week and director Megan Follows describes it as an entirely different kind of approach to the novel. This is a return to the story for Follows, who played red-haired orphan Anne Shirley in a 1985 CBC-TV miniseries adaptation that is almost as beloved as the book itself | | |  | | | | From romance to nonfiction, these holiday-themed books will get you hyped for cozy season! | | | Share this newsletter | | or subscribe if this was
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